MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST What does it mean to be a man? As songs from “Mulan” (or the PDP) run through your head, I want to discuss an article recently published by The Gauntlet, a start-up publication on campus…
NICK MERSCH SPORTS EDITOR First off, I want to apologize because I’ve decided to write about the NFL again. I’m very sorry, but I love it too much. I know I said I was “taking a break” from it, but…
NICK MERSCH SPORTS EDITOR Until fourth grade, John Noce was a hockey guy. When the stench of his equipment grew too rank for his mother’s nose, she made him give up the sport. It was then that Noce switched to…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Some nights, I stare blankly at the screen of my laptop at a loss for what artistic ruminations I could possibly contribute to this illustrious publication that are worth the attention and time of the…
MICHELLE SAMANO AUSTRIAN CORRESPONDANT After a crazy week of classes filled with exams, papers and quizzes galore, the greatly anticipated Rome and Assisi pilgrimage finally came. We were all so excited for 10 days in Italy: eating pasta, gelato and…
ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST Advent is such a beautiful time to be Catholic. This time in the Church’s liturgical year allows us to prepare our hearts and minds for the coming of the Almighty God to earth in the…
JEREMIAH POFF CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST “We either have a country or we don’t; we either have borders or we don’t.” This was President Donald Trump’s rallying cry on the way to his historic election in 2016, and somehow it was controversial.…
ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST I’m going to be honest. I really don’t like Pope Francis as a pope. It’s a hard place for me to be. I have a great admiration and immense respect for the office of the…
MAGGIE PAWSEY CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST I didn’t know I could love a novel about adulterers so much. Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina” is full of characters who are so realistic that you could go outside and meet them (if you…
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST College students and books: they go together like salsa and cilantro, which is to say our academic reading is something we either relish, despise or put up with because it is a necessary part of…
